Sachin Tendulkar has returned early from India's tour of Sri Lanka, and will miss the Twenty20 international on Tuesday. Tendulkar left on Sunday night since he was not part of the Twenty20 squad, team manager Prakash Dixit confirmed.

COLOMBO: There has been much discussion about M S Dhoni's remarks in the post match interview after India won the on going ODI series in Colombo to the effect that India would give its bench a chance in the two dead rubbers. The upshot of that was that Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan - the two seniormost members of the ODI side were left out, while Irfan Pathan and Rohit Sharma played in their place. As far as tactics went, Dhoni was uncompromising. He promoted himself to number 3, and not Rohit Sharma.

Melbourne, Australia - Australia vice captain Michael Clarke and opening batsman Simon Katich were involved in an altercation after the third test against South Africa, reportedly over the timing of a song meant to foster team unity.